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A summary of the changes in Linux Kernel 6.0 RC1 which spans across processors, networking, storage, graphics and other Kernel modules.

The last year or so was already a wild ride for the open source instruction set architecture RISC-V, then Intel stepped in, took a top tier membership, a seat on the board, pledged to spend a billion dollars on the architecture, and began partnering with key RISC-V vendors.

On this day, 29 years ago, Debian GNU/Linux, one of today’s oldest and most popular Linux distributions, began its journey to become a legend. Happy 29th birthday, Debian GNU/Linux!

Running out of disk space? It is time to find out which directories and files are occupying the most disk space using Agedu utility.

A static site works very well in certain use cases. For example, it’s great for documentation. And static sites can be just as engaging as dynamic sites. The only real difference is that all the HTML is generated before being uploaded.

This guide explains what is Ncdu, how to install Ncdu in various Linux distributions and how to use Ncdu to check disk space usage in Linux and Unix operating systems with examples.

A simple guide on how you can install GNOME Nightly apps using Flatpak in various Linux distribution to try out the development version.

Google Finance is a website focusing on business news and financial information. It provides real-time market quotes, international exchanges, financial news, and analytics. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives to Google Finance.

I am pleased to share that Steve Teixeira has joined Mozilla as our Chief Product Officer. During our search for a Chief Product Officer, Steve stood out to us because of his extensive experience at tech and internet companies where he played instrumental roles in shaping products from research, design, security, development, and getting them […]

The GNOME Project turns 25th years old today and to celebrate the anniversary of its birth the development team released the beta version of the upcoming GNOME 43 desktop environment series for public testing.

In this guide, we'll go through the best Linux laptops, review them, compare them, and write more information about Linux laptops in general.

Sparky is a fast, lightweight, and fully customizable OS built on Debian that offers a few versions for different users and tasks. Three months after the previous 6.3 release, the SparkyLinux team announced the general availability of the latest stable release – SparkyLinux 6.4. This Is what’s new!

Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update. Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds has released the first release candidate for Linux 6.0, but doesn't mind what you call it.…

Linus Torvalds kicked off the development cycle of the upcoming Linux 6.0 kernel series and announced today the availability of the first Release Candidate (RC) milestone for public testing.

I'm a happy user of the XML-based Docbook markup language. To me, it's a precise, explicit, and detailed system that allows me to have contextual and domain-specific metadata in what I write. Best of all, though, it can be transformed (that's what XML users call it when XML is converted into another format) into nearly any format, including HTML, EPUB, FO for PDF, plain text, and more. With great power comes a lot of typing, though, and sometimes Docbook feels like it's surplus to requirements. Luckily, there's Asciidoc, a system of writing plain text with the same markup-less feel of Markdown, but that transforms to Docbook to take advantage of its precision and flexibility.

The ninety-eight installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on August 14th, 2022, keeping you guys up to date with the most important things happening in the Linux world.

Word processing files used to be closed, proprietary formats. In some older word processors, the document file was essentially a memory dump from the word processor. While this made for faster loading of the document into the word processor, it also made the document file format an opaque mess.

Rescuezilla is a free, easy-to-use hard disk cloning and imaging software based on Ubuntu that boots a live USB. Rescuezilla 2.4 upgrades its basis from Ubuntu 21.10 to Ubuntu 22.04 to improve compatibility with modern hardware.

Docker has matured over the years to offer a range of solutions for developers working with containers. This can lead to some confusion, though, as developers need to choose which version of Docker to install.

Following the May release of version 2022.2, the new version of Kali Linux 2022.3 will surprise fans because almost everything important is outside the release itself. So let’s go over it.